Her adventures are narrated by three shadow puppets who speak in the accents of modern Indian English and who quibble over details and interpretations. Charming indie animated film that doesn't insult anyone's intelligence. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! There are songs, bright colors and a story taken in part from one of the biggest, oldest epics in the world. Original Score: 4/5 April 28, 2010
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And the ingenuity of Sita -- which evokes painting, collage, underground comic books, Mumbai musicals and "Yellow Submarine" (for starters) - is dazzling. Nina Paley's delicious Sita Sings the Blues finds solace in autobiography and an animated gold mine in the caverns of an ancient Sanskrit epic. Just affecting, surprising and a lot of fun. An infectious, dazzling and poignant story about love and loyalty in both mythical India and modern America, and perfect proof that animation can work for adults. Not that “Sita Sings the Blues” will leave you wallowing in transhistorical, multicultural woe. The story shifts effortlessly between the two-dimensional collage style of the narrator segments, the classical artistic design of the Rama-Sita story, the pencil sketch style of the modern story, and finally Hanshaw's musical numbers in a two-dimensional May 3, 2010 All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer With Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya. A Pixar or DreamWorks extravaganza typically concludes with a phone book’s worth of technical credits.
Nina Paley's animated marvel mixes a personal tale of romantic woe with a fabulous, often hilarious, recounting of the Sanskrit epic fable The Ramayana. This is the kind of personal filmmaking that could only have come together through a chance set of inspirations. But it is also modest, personal and, in spite of Ms. Paley’s use of digital vector graphic techniques, decidedly handmade.
Maybe you could call it fate. February 26, 2012 Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events December 28, 2009 Captivating, mesmerizing, spellbinding -- I'll throw everything in the movie-critic book at this animated feature by Nina Paley Copyright © Fandango. Please distribute, copy, share, archive, and show Sita Sings the Blues. Not busy, or overwhelming, or eye-popping.
Hanshaw, crooning after inconstant or unkind lovers, completes the picture. And the ingenuity of “Sita” which evokes painting, collage, underground comic books, Mumbai musicals and “Yellow Submarine” (for starters) is dazzling.
Then I was told I must see it. Original Score: 3.5/4 Movie Review | 'Sita Sings the Blues' Legendary Breakups: Good (Animated) Women Done Wrong in India A scene from “Sita Sings the Blues,” directed by Nina Paley. Running time: 1 hour 22 minutes. Animation is, at heart, the simplest form of cinema: a flutter of drawings fooling the eye into seeing motion.